On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 10:26:23PM +0200, Ralf Treinen wrote: > On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 10:04:38PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > > Ok, let me recapitulate, we have decided to store the .orig.tar.gz > > tarball, and put the debian directory in the SVN repository ? If there > > is a new upstream release, there is a new .orig.tar.gz ? Why not put the > > whole upstream tarball in uncompressed form in SVN then ? It would spare > > space in the long time. > > I think the argument was that we have no easy way to detect when > files should be removed from the repository. Maybe Branden will > tell us in Oslo how to do this (he will talk about managing > debian packages by subversion) :-) > > Anyway, space it is not really a limitation for now. The ocaml > source tree is big, OK, but how many ocaml releases are there > per year?
One, two if they botched the first one. The real problem is if we are going to add CVS snapshots, like i am doing currently. > > Also, how do we make the link between a given .orig.tar.gz and its > > corresponding debian directory ? Do we use release tags or something > > such in the branches ? > > The top entry in the changelog gives the name of the orig.tar.gz. > Remember that in svn version numbers apply to the complete repository, > not to single files as in cvs. Mmm, > I find the opkg-buildpackage script that I posted some days earlier > to this list useful. Ok, i will look at it again. Friendly, Sven Luther
